Lucas Brown, BSN, RN, CCRN-CMC
Kansas City,MO
Summary
In all my professional efforts, I strive to be honest, caring, and thoughtful of my patients and the other staff I work with. Originally from Kansas City, I moved to Iowa City so that I could pursue a nursing career. In my years as an undergraduate, I have worked as an Emergency Medical Technician through Care Ambulance in Iowa City and a Patient Care Technician through UIHC's emergency department. Through my nursing education, I have learned to uphold and value evidence-based practice as I took on clinical rotations in medical surgical, mental health, mother-baby, ER, and ICU floors. After graduating, I proceeded to work as a MICU nurse at the University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics for 1.5 years as an RN, where I earned my CCRN and recently received my CMC. I worked with many different medical pathologies, including respiratory failure, renal failure, liver failure, ARDS, overdoses, DKA, HHS, post-codes, seizures, status asthmatics, status epilepticus, septic shock, cardiogenic shock, as well as different therapies including ECMO (bedside) and CRRT. I have now moved back home to Kansas City to be closer to family! Enjoy my resume!
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Nurse
University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics
Iowa City, IA
10.2024 - 04.2026
- Administered medications and treatments per physician orders, ensuring patient safety and compliance with protocols.
- Monitored vital signs and patient conditions, identifying changes and initiating appropriate interventions.
- Collaborated with multidisciplinary teams to develop and implement individualized care plans for critically ill patients.
- Worked with residents doctors, attendings, and pharmacists by participating in daily rounds and executing agreed upon plans
- Titrated vasoactive infusions per protocol, including patients in triple-pressure shock
- Titrated sedation for patients to maintain safe ventilator compliance
- Assisted in RSI situations
- Assisted in mass-transfusion protocol situations
- Utilized PrisMax CRRT machine for patients in renal failure
- Assisted as a BEDSIDE ECMO nurse for patients waiting for lung transplants
- Served patients with a variety of pathologies, including septic shock, cancer, TLS syndrome, ARDS, AHRF, GI bleeding, liver failure, renal failure, anoxic brain injuries, post-code management, TTM, heart failure (HFpEF and HFrEF), communicable diseases, etc.
Patient Care Technician, Emergency Department
University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics
Iowa City, IA
01.2023 - 07.2024
- Assisted with feeding and monitored intake to help patients achieve nutritional objectives.
- Completed EKGs as ordered by nursing staff and doctors
- Maintained clean and safe environment to promote patient safety and comfort.
- Helped with patient hygiene, including bed baths, oral care, etc.
- Assisted in transferring patients, beds and patient care equipment to other rooms adhering to necessary safety precautions.
- Documented patient information and care activities in electronic health record.
- Transported patients between rooms and appointments or testing locations.
- Helped take vitals
- Assisted triage nurses with ED flow by moving beds, gathering specimens, etc.
- Assisted doctors with finding equipment necessary for more invasive procedures
- Helped create art line kits, chest tube kits, and central line kits
- Assisted with stocking patient rooms
- Monitored patient vital signs, ensuring timely reporting to nursing staff.
Emergency Medical Technician
Care Ambulance
Iowa City, IA
10.2021 - 10.2022
- Helped transport patients during transports and simple 911 calls.
- Controlled wounds and injuries en-route to hospitals, prepping patients for advanced treatments or maintaining conditions pre-arrival under BLS ambulance protocols.
- Communicated with patients about pain, comfort, and needs during transportation and preliminary medical care.
- Assisted with billing and insurance documentation
- Trained EMTs in basic life support skills, oxygen therapy, and wound care.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Mercy College of Health Sciences
Des Moines, IA08-2024
Skills
- Ventilator management alongside RTs
- IV Pump management (including secondaries, y-siting, and straight running)
- Vasoactive infusion titration (norepinephrine, vasopressin, epinephrine, dobutamine)
- Sedation infusion titration (precedex, propofol, ketamine)
- Analgesic infusion titration (fentanyl, dilaudid)
- Can communicate with patients, DPOAs, and next-of-kin regarding stress from GOC conversations
- IV insertion, NG insertion, foley insertion, flexi insertion, and general nursing cares
Certification
CCRN (2025)
CMC (2026)
Languages
English
Native or Bilingual
Spanish
Elementary
Timeline
Nurse
University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics
10.2024 - 04.2026
Patient Care Technician, Emergency Department
University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics
01.2023 - 07.2024
Emergency Medical Technician
Care Ambulance
10.2021 - 10.2022
Bachelor of Science - Nursing
Mercy College of Health Sciences
Clinical Experience As Student
- Clinical @ St. Luke's NICU
- Completed 15 hours in March of 2024
- Helped with oxygen therapy for neonate with underdeveloped lung
- Assisted with diaper changes, cleaning, etc.
- Assisted with formula feedings
- Clinical @ St. Luke's Adult Intensive Care Unit
- Completed 24 hours in June of 2024
- Helped with post cardiac catheterization care
- Helped with sedation drugs
- Assisted in titration of hemodynamic medications
- Clinical(s) @ St. Luke's Orthopedics Floor, Cardiac Floor, Mercy Iowa City's (now downtown campus) medical floor
- Completed ~200 hours in different medical floors, telemetry floors, post orthopedic-surgical floors from September 2023- February 2024
- Assisted in patient hygiene
- Assisted in EHR documentation
- Assisted in passing medications
- Assisted in skills such as IV starts, running fluids, foley insertions, etc.
- Clinical @ St. Luke's Adult Psychiatric Floor
- Completed 22.5 hours in January 2024
- Spent time with patients and conversed
- Worked with nurses and was educated on calming techniques and other ways to calm patients with mental disorders
- Senior Preceptorship @ St. Luke's Adult Intensive Care Unit & Emergency Room
- Completed 135 hours from June-August 2024
- Took on both patients in ICU setting, doing both full body assessments, medications passes, etc.
- Titrated drugs based on given parameters for both sedation efforts and hemodynamic efforts
- Started IVs in ER, foley insertion, NG placement
- Helped with DKA protocols in both ER and ICU
- Assisted in triaging patients in ER
- Coordinated with intensivist doctors in ICU for patient management
- Worked with CRRT
- Worked with RT for ventilator management and troubleshooting
- Did RAAS scoring, GCS, etc. for assessment of patients with altered mental status and/or sedated